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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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Texas Political History Oral History Project
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American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project
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Business Archives Project
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Business History Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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Caltex Oral History Project
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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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Dallas LGBT Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Darrell Harrington, July 5, 1997
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Interview with Darrell Harrington, an anesthetist and Army veteran of the Vietnam War. In the interview, Harrington describes his experiences while serving as an Army nurse, and includes details on his assignments to Chu Lai, Da Nang, and the 91st Evacuation Hospital in An Khe. Harrington also discusses the treatment of wounded troops and enemy soldiers, relationships between doctors and nurses, general morale problems, and recreational activities. He recalls his return to the States on thirty-day leave as well as post-Vietnam adjustments and his attitudes toward the war.
Date:
July 5, 1997
Creator:
Houser-Hess, Lucinda & Harrington, Darrell
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jose Gonzales, July 4, 1997
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Interview with Jose Gonzalez, an anesthetist and Army veteran of the Vietnam War. In the interview, Gonzalez describes his experiences while serving as an Army nurse in Vietnam. Gonzalez discusses what life was like during his assignment to the 24th Evacuation Hospital, and includes details concerning relationships between doctors and nurses, morale, American relations with Vietnamese civilians, recreational activities, entertainment, and his Bronze Star award. He also recalls the adjustments that both he and many of his comrades dealt with post-Vietnam, and shares his attitudes toward the war.
Date:
July 4, 1997
Creator:
Houser-Hess, Lucinda & Gonzalez, Jose
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dolphus Edward Rowan, July 17, 2007
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Interview with Ed Rowan, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Gadsden, Alabama. Rowan discusses his family background, education, work, purchasing an airplane, flying over the the wreck of the Hindenburg, joining the National Guard and flying coastal patrols, becoming a bomber pilot, his B-17 crew, the various missions they flew in the European Theater, fighters, flak, equipment, tactics, leaving the service, and working as an airline pilot. In appendix is a photo of Rowan's civilian plane, his Distinguished Flying Cross citation, his appointment to the Reserves, a list of missions, flight logs, and a fact sheet about the 381st Bomb Group,
Date:
July 17, 2007
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin & Rowan Jr., Dolphus Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Toulouse, July 11, 1990
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Interview with Robert Toulouse, Dean of the University of North Texas Graduate School from Denton, Texas. Toulouse discusses the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and his involvement in the merger of the college with NTSU/UNT.
Date:
July 11, 1990
Creator:
Rafes, Richard & Toulouse, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Campbell Read, July 1, 2013
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Interview with Campbell Read, a professor at Southern Methodist University and Dallas-area LGBT activist from Edinburgh, Scotland. Read discusses fighting police harassment, organizing a televised rebuttal to televangelist James Robison's condemnation of the gay community, important members of the community in Dallas and Denton, attending college in Lebanon and the United States, becoming involved with gay rights' activities at SMU, his family, and bird-watching. In appendix are pictures of demonstration signs Read carried and relevant newspaper clippings.
Date:
July 1, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Read, Campbell
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Melvin Fenoglio, July 19, 2000
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Interview with Navy veteran Melvin Fenoglio, educator and farmer-rancher. The interview includes Fenoglio's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, and the Iwo Jima and Okinawa Campaigns. Fenoglio also talks about early family history, his pre-war education, his acceptance in the V-7 Program, failing out of the Midshipman School and transferring to the U.S. Naval Training Center, yeoman training, gunnery practice off the Hawaiian Islands, his personal observations of the flag-raisings on Mount Suribachi, the USS Little's assignment to radar picket duty at Station Ten, his ship being hit by four kamikazes and sinking on May 3, 1945, rescue in the water by his shipmates, survival in the water for three hours before being picked up by LCS(L)-25, and the lasting effects of his World War II experiences. The interview also includes an appendix with a map.
Date:
July 19, 2000
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fenoglio, Melvin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Crooks, July 24, 2003
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Interview with aircraft worker Richard Crooks. The interview includes Crooks' personal experiences of being employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date:
July 24, 2003
Creator:
Dixon, Tricia Taylor & Crooks, Richard
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mae Cora Peterson, July 25, 2012
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Interview with South Carolina-born African American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, Mae Cora Peterson, a non-profit administrator and educator. The interview includes Peterson's personal experiences of childhood on the South Carolina State College campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina, life under the Jim Crow laws, working at Border Mission, her move to and impressions of Fort Worth under Jim Crow laws, graduate school at the University of Michigan, and colorism. Peterson talks about her husband's job at Maxwell Steel in Fort Worth, taking a cruise to Havana, Cuba, on a Jim Crow passenger ship, other blacks' disbelief of privileged childhood and insulation from the full effects of segregation, education jobs at various colleges, working as Executive Secretary for the Fort Worth YWCA, and working as the dean of girls for Fort Worth ISD. Additionally, Peterson gives details on segregated Fort Worth high schools and desegregation, and her trip to London and Paris with her daughter. The interview includes an appendix with letters, contracts, job registration forms, yearbook excerpts, and an article about Mae Cora Peterson.
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Peterson, Mae Cora
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Ed Balentine, July 7, 2006
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Interview with former North Texas State Teachers College student John Ed Balentine, longtime resident of Denton County, Texas. The interview includes Balentine's personal experiences about life on Denton farms, including descriptions of ranch work, wheat harvest, and entertainment options in Denton, education in Denton schools, dropping out of school to work for magnolia Oil Co. in Kermit, Texas, and being inducted into the U.S. Army. Additionally, Balentine speaks about his family's economic difficulties during the Great Depression, undergraduate studies at North Texas as an Industrial Arts major, descriptions of student social life, his World War II service in an anti-battalion, returning to Kermit, courting and marrying Jeanette Smith, and descriptions of historic Denton County photographs. The interview includes an appendix with photographs and Balentine's autobiography.
Date:
July 7, 2006
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Balentine, John Ed
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Beryl Barton Womack, July 3, 2002
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Interview with Beryl Barton Womack. The interview includes Womack's personal experiences about England during the Blitz in World War II, courtship and marriage to Lieutenant Travis Womack, early education, wartime rationing, attending the Domestic Science Teachers College, and coming to the United States. Additionally, Womack speaks about Winston Churchill's inspirational speeches during the Battle of Britain, the bombing of her parents' home in Nottinghamshire, the coming of American troops, and adjustments to American life.
Date:
July 3, 2002
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Womack, Beryl Barton
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Don Maison, July 30, 2013
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Interview with Don Maison, President and Chief Executive Officer of AIDS services of Dallas. The interview includes Maison's personal experiences about his childhood, working with the Dallas County Juvenile Department, being gay, being involved with the gay community, and his experiences as a lawyer. He particularly talks about being involved with the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Village Station arrests, and the AIDS crisis.
Date:
July 30, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Maison, Don
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gerard Roland Vela, July 21, 2004
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Interview with Dr. Gerard Roland Vela, UNT Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. The interview includes Vela's personal experiences about childhood and education, serving in World War II-era U.S. Navy, having a fellowship at Harvard University, and joining the North Texas faculty in 1965. Additionally, Vela discusses his family history, his love of chemistry, genetics, and microbiology, the growing pains involved with transitioning North Texas into a research university, the construction of a research program, his relationship with students, and his service on the Denton City Council. Photographs are included throughout the interview.
Date:
July 21, 2004
Creator:
Calderon, Roberto R. & Vela, Gerard Roland
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Gayle, July 15, 2006
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Interview with African American North Texas State University alumnus James Gayle. The interview included Gayle's personal experiences of childhood, playing basketball at Fort Worth's all-black Terrell High School, attending North Texas and enrolling in the ROTC program, and his experience as a boarder in "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton. Gayle talks about the comparison of race relations in Artesia, New Mexico, and Waco and Forth Worth, Texas, the "neutral" stance of NT administration toward black students and the "self-support" system among students, as well as his relationships with professors and white students, and his perception of what he gained from his NT experience.
Date:
July 15, 2006
Creator:
Cervantez, Brian & Gayle, James
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harlan W. Crouse, July 2, 2004
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Interview with Army veteran Harlan W. Crouse, including personal experiences about combat in the Philippines during World War II, the Japanese surrender in Yokohama Harbor, and being present during the post-war U.S. occupation of Japan.
Date:
July 2, 2004
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Crouse, Harlan W., 1926-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with General Alexander R. Bolling, Jr., July 15, 1998
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Interview with General Alexander R. Bolling, Jr., concerning his experiences as an infantry platoon leader (3rd Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 302nd Regiment, 94th Infantry Division) in the European Theater during World War II.
Date:
July 15, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Lane, Peter B. & Bolling, Alexander R. (Alexander Russell), 1922-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Diane B. Fitzgerald, July 24, 2014
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Transcript of an interview with Diane Fitzgerald, homesteader and simple life advocate. Fitzgerald shares concerning her childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; and memories of the Nearings.
Date:
July 24, 2014
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Fitzgerald, Diane B., 1940-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joseph Sudduth, July 5, 1990
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Interview with Joseph Sudduth, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field with B Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Interview also covers his life before, during, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Includes an appendix.
Date:
July 5, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Sudduth, Joseph
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold L. Branch, July 7, 1993
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Interview with Harold Branch, a diamond expert, concerning his recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining near Murfreesboro, Arkansas from 1920 to 1950.
Date:
July 7, 1993
Creator:
Henderson, John C. & Branch, Harold L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alma Rugg, July 7, 1974
Interview with Mrs. Alma Rugg concerning her experiences as a Navy wife at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 7, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Rugg, Alma
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank A. Luciano, July 7, 1974
Interview with Frank Luciano, U.S. Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Kamehameha with the coast artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 7, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Luciano, Frank A.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank Townsend, July 6, 1974
Interview with Frank Townsend, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 6, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Townsend, Frank, 1920-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Herbert Straus, July 7, 1974
Interview with Herbert Straus, Jewish chaplain for the U. S. Navy. The interview includes Strauss' personal experiences at the Pearl Harbor Base during the Japanese attack there on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 7, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Straus, Herbert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred R. Runce, July 6, 1974
Interview with Fred R. Runce, U.S. Army WWII Veteran about his experiences at Wheeler Field with the Army Ordnance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 6, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Runce, Fred R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gelane Matthews Barron, July 7, 1974
Interview with Gelane Matthews Barron, former Army nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas. The interview includes Barron's experiences at Tipler General Hospital at Fort Shafter during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
July 7, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Barron, Gelane Matthews
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library